Defenders of the Black Hills
Unsafe at Any Dose
Meeting about abandoned Uranium Mine cleanup - Thursday May 12, 2011Defenders, The following meeting is regarding the Riley Pass abandoned uranium mine in the North Cave Hills Area. This is a huge mine and the company that was to participate in the clean-up, which will total in the billions of dollars, has gone bankrupt. The original plans for the cleanup were very questionable and would not have adequately held the radioactive pollution. Among the questions to be asked is what about the other 88 abandoned mines in this area, as there are 89 abandoned mines. When will the other 88 be cleaned up? Those of you who can attend, please do so. Because of our continued presence at their meetings and asking questions, the US Forest Service has done more to begin cleanup than at any other place. We need to keep the public pressure on as the public's health is what is affected. Thank you. Charmaine White Face, Coordinator
Bear Butte: Oil Drilling PhotosThe following are photos of the existing well and tank that Nakota Energy has installed near Bear Butte.
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"Defenders of the Black Hills is a group of volunteers without racial or tribal boundaries whose mission is to preserve, protect, and restore the environment of the 1851 and 1868 Treaty Territories, Treaties made between the United States and the Great Sioux Nation."
Speaking about radioactive fallout, the late President John F. Kennedy said,
"Even then, the number of children and grandchildren with cancer in their bones, with leukemia in their blood, or with poison in their lungs might seem statistically small to some, in comparison with natural health hazards. But this is not a natural health hazard and it is not a statistical issue. The loss of even one human life, or the malformation of even one baby who may be born long after we are gone, should be of concern to us all. Our children and grandchildren are not merely statistics toward which we can be indifferent."
July 26, 1963 upon signing the ban on above ground nuclear tests
"The radiation levels in parts I visited with my students were higher than those in the evacuated zones around the Fukushima Nuclear disaster...." Nuclear Physics Professor Kimberly Kearfott, University of Michigan, in comparing the readings obtained in northwestern South Dakota at the Cave Hills open-pit, abandoned uranium mines.
"It must always be remembered that the various Indian tribes were once independent and sovereign nations, and that their claim to sovereignty long predates that of our own government."
Thurgood Marshall, US Supreme Court Justice
(McClanahan v. Sate Tax Commission, 1973)